My elderly grandmother recently got into an accident while driving on the highway. As she was traveling along the right lane, where she belonged, there was a truck coming off of the ramp she was passing. There was no way she could slow down or get over due to the traffic being so busy and the truck was going at such a high rate of speed. He came off the ramp very suddenly before anyone could do anything. The truck ended up running into the side of my grandmother’s new car and jerked her around a lot as the car sped around. The ambulance took her to the hospital. She had a fracture in the upper back and other injuries. She started receiving many medical bills about this accident. Finally, I took her to talk to a truck accident lawyer and he filed a case against the driver of the truck. All her medical bills were paid by his insurance company.

My nephew recently was having a birthday party for his 21st birthday. There were over twenty five people invited. Everyone was bringing alcohol, gag gifts and clothing to the party. Nobody really had any idea what to get him. My wife and I were having problems deciding, as well. We shopped and shopped in malls, stores, specialty stores and many other places. He had bought himself a new mustang just a few months prior to his birthday, so we even shopped for something to get him for his new mustang. It seemed as though everything we saw, he already had. Other items we saw were things he already said he didn’t want. He was so proud of his new car so we wanted to buy something to help him customize it, but just didn’t know what. Finally, we found a store that specialized strictly in Mustang accessories. It was many miles away from where we live, but decided to drive there anyway. After speaking to the sales person about the gift we were trying to find, he suggested a gift certificate. He explained how the store can special order a lot of items that people were looking for. They even had a catalog that we could take, to put with the gift certificate. My nephew could order what he wanted out of the catalog, if he saw something he wanted, instead of driving to the store. We finally found the gift we wanted and bought it. When he opened it at the party, he was so excited. He loved what we gave him. He was ready to go shopping with it right then. We never knew there was a store that specialized in Mustang accessories only. We were so glad we found it. By going there and purchasing a gift certificate, it ended up being his favorite gift. Since he worked long hours, he used the certificate to order out of the catalog and ended up getting several items that he saw that he had never seen before. We came to the conclusion that sometimes it pays to shop at a store that specializes in one specific item, instead of a store that sells many different styles and items.

I came across a new website that offers a very unique service. It’s called QlipBoard by Qlip Media. It allows you to upload pictures and record over them, to create slideshows, video blogs and much more. You can upload pictures of that new car you just purchased or that new puppy you got and tell people about it rather than typing and having them read about it. It’s a pretty interesting service and right now it’s still in beta mode so you can try it for free. I actually think it’s quite entertaining. You can even use the “mouse pen” to draw on the images if you want to point out certain things. Check it out at www.QlipMedia.com.